Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261416AbVAaW7G (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:59:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261417AbVAaW7G (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:59:06 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.202]:34700 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261416AbVAaW7D (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:59:03 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=tk3uv7nlsJ5eC9j45rUCNubfNlnHdBi0ZgcqEM+olSXoGx+9N+w7y9vFrLl7xntsEBC6+s/O0Bxss3a3bw8QrJ3M7JTx3PmHg88o+lC93GaOD37o6xj6VrBW8Ylsh+k5bIoICi79tufjXVkwzjOm86KhnGM7zaWjwx7UD1tPEkc= Message-ID: <5b64f7f0501311459320d503e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:59:03 -0500 From: Rahul Karnik Reply-To: Rahul Karnik To: Benno Subject: Re: My System doesn't use swap! Cc: Matthias-Christian Ott , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050131115034.GA9571@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41FE1B4B.2060305@tiscali.de> <200501311157.10932.mbuesch@freenet.de> <41FE2814.9030503@tiscali.de> <20050131115034.GA9571@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 19 On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:50:35 +1100, Benno wrote: > On Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 13:44:04 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > >Ok maybe I wasn't able to read the /free/ output correctly, but why is > >no swap used (more than 60% ram are used)? > > Why would you want to use swap when you still have free RAM? The kernel > isn't using swap because there is no need to. 2004 common VM thread: Why is my swap being used, I still have free RAM? 2005 common VM thread: Why is my swap not being used, I only have some free RAM? Guess Linux is getting something right -- we can't please anyone!!! -Rahul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/